Amid the controversy and heavy media focus on United States authorities separating illegal immigrant families at the border, a Democratic lawmaker admitted the crisis of minors crossing the border during former President Barack Obama’s administration was “kept very quiet.”
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) told CNN’s Fredricka Whitfield how the images of children being kept in cages are similar to how kids were detained when Obama was president.
“I released some of those photos because it was kept very quiet under the Obama administration. There were large numbers of people coming in. The Obama administration was trying to keep this quiet,” Cuellar said. – READ MORE
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